Illustrator Winners
Complete Listing by Year
2026 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Bafu
First Quarter
Art Ikuta
Amuri Morris
Roddy Taylor
Second Quarter
Bafu
Michel El Asmar
Karah Richardson
Third Quarter
Nathan Deiwert
Josie Moore
Tray Streeter
Fourth Quarter
Tracy Eire
Anna Malone
Haotian Allen Zhang
2025 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Jordan Smajstrla
First Quarter
Haileigh Enriquez
CL Fors
Daniel Montifar
Second Quarter
David Hoffrichter
Tremani Sutcliffe
Hailee Rojas
Third Quarter
John Barlow
HeatherAnne Lee
Breanda Petsch
Fourth Quarter
2024 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Tyler Vail
First Quarter
Arthur Haywood
Selena Meraki
Carina Zhang
Second Quarter
Ashley Cassaday
Tyler Vail
May Zheng
Third Quarter
Gigi Hooper
Jennifer Mellen
Pedro N.
Fourth Quarter
2023 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Dao Vi
First Quarter
Cyberaeon
Clarence Bateman
Dao Vi
Second Quarter
Sarah Morrison
Ximing Luo
Alaya Knowlton
Third Quarter
Kristen Hadaway
José Sánchez
Helen Yi
Fourth Quarter
2022 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Zaine Lodhi
First Quarter
Majid Saberinejad
Natalia Salvador
Jerome Tieh
Second Quarter
Arthur M. Doweyko
Zaine Lodhi
Xiaomeng Zhang
Third Quarter
Nick Jizba
Brett Stump
Annalee Wu
Fourth Quarter
2021 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Dan Watson
First Quarter
Jennifer Bruce
Isabel Gibney
Madolyn Locke
Second Quarter
Rupam Grimoeuvre
Will Knight
Stephen Spinas
Third Quarter
Mariah Salinas
Dan Watson
Jeff Weiner
Fourth Quarter
André Mata
Sethe Nguyen
Shiyi Yu
2020 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Anh Le
First Quarter
Brock Aguirre
Daniel Bitton
Ben Hill
Second Quarter
Phoebe Rothfeld
John Dale Javier
Heather A. Laurence
Third Quarter
Aidin Andrews
Irmak Çavun
Mason Matak
Fourth Quarter
Arthur Bowling
Kaitlyn Goldberg
Anh Le
2019 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Aliya Chen
First Quarter
Yingying Jiang
Emerson Rabbitt
Vytautas Vasiliauskas
Second Quarter
Alexander Gustafson
Sam Kemp
Christine Rhee
Third Quarter
Allen Morris
Jennifer Ober
Josh Pemberton
Fourth Quarter
Aliya Chen
Qianjiao Ma
Alice Wang
2018 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Kyna Tek
First Quarter
Bruce Brenneise
Duncan Halleck
Anthony Moravian
Second Quarter
Adar Darnov
Reyna Rochin
Brenda Rodriguez
Third Quarter
Alana Fletcher
Maksym Polishchuk
Jazmen Richardson
Fourth Quarter
Quintin Gleim
Sidney Lugo
Kyna Tek
2017 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Michael Michera
First Quarter
Aituar Manas
Chan ha Kim
Yader Fonseca
Second Quarter
Christopher Kiklowicz
Victoria Man
Jason Park
Third Quarter
Hanna Al-Shaer
David Furnal
Michael Michera
Fourth Quarter
Asher Ben Alpay
Rachel Quinlan
Ryan Richmond
Published Finalist
Anthony Moravian
2016 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Adrian Massaro
First Quarter
Camber Arnhart
Talia Spencer
Maricela Ugarte Peña
Second Quarter
Christina Alberici
Vlada Monakhova
Dino Hadžiavdić
Third Quarter
Killian McKeown
Paul Otteni
Jonas Špokas
Fourth Quarter
Brandon Knight
Adrian Massaro
Preston Stone
2015 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Michelle Lockamy
First Quarter
Tung Chi Lee
Michelle Lockamy
Emily Siu
Second Quarter
Amit Dutta
Shuangjian Liu
Taylor Payton
Third Quarter
Alex Brock
Quinlan Septer
Choong Yoon
Fourth Quarter
Megan Kelchner
Megen Nelson
Daniel Tyka
2014 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Trevor Smith
First Quarter
Vincent-Michael Coviello
Seonhee Lim
Kristie Kim
Second Quarter
Adam Brewster
Trevor Smith
Sarah Webb
Third Quarter
Kirbi Fagan
Bernardo Mota
Michael Talbot
Fourth Quarter
Cassandre Bolan
Vanessa Golitz
Andrew Sonea
2013 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Aldo Katayanagi
First Quarter
Jackie Albano
Sida Chen
Olivia Xu
Second Quarter
Jon Eno
Luis Menacho
Karsen Slater
Third Quarter
Lucas Durham
Tiffany England
Aldo Katayanagi
Fourth Quarter
James J. Eads
Joshua Meehan
Daniel Reneau
2012 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Hunter Bonyun
First Quarter
Hunter Bonyun
Greg Opalinski
Carly Trowbridge
Second Quarter
Mago Huang
Jay Richard
J.F. Smith
Third Quarter
John W. Haverty Jr.
Fiona Meng
Pat R. Steiner
Fourth Quarter
Emily Grandin
Paul Pederson
Rhiannon Taylor
2011 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Irvin Rodriguez
First Quarter
Vivian Friedel
Scott Frederick Hargrave
Erik Jean Solem
Second Quarter
Meghan Muriel
Irvin Rodriguez
Dustin D. Panzino
Third Quarter
Frederick Edwards
Joey Jordan
Nico Photos
Fourth Quarter
Gregory J. Gunther
Fred Jordan
Ryan Downing
2010 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Seth J. Rowanwood
First Quarter
Seth J. Rowanwood
Cassandra Shaffer
Kelsey Wroten
Second Quarter
Tyler Carter
Rachael Jade Sweeney
R.M. Winch
Third Quarter
Jordan Cornthwaite
Rebecca Gleason
Irena Kovalenko
Fourth Quarter
Jingxuan Hu
Ven Locklear
Olivia Pelaez
2009 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Oleksandra Barysheva
Illustrator Winners
Aaron Anderson
Oleksandra Barysheva
Ryan Behrens
Douglas Bosley
Luke Eidenschink
Tobias A. Fruge
Brianne Hills
Evan Jensen
Jamie Luhn
Mark Payton
Joshua J. Stewart
A.R. Stone
2008 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Brittany J. Jackson
First Quarter
Robert J. Hall Jr.
Stephen R. Stanley
Alexandra D. Szweryn
Second Quarter
Robert Castillo
Brittany J. Jackson
Stephen Knox
Third Quarter
James Galindo
Sean Kibbe
Ilya Shkipin
Fourth Quarter
Gustavo Bollinger
Kyle Phillips
William Ruhlig
2007 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Lorraine Schleter
First Quarter
Bryan Beus
Lars Edwards
Bogdan Stetsenko
Second Quarter
Amelia Mammoliti
Artem Mirolevich
Third Quarter
Marcus Collins
Randall Ensley
Peter Town
Fourth Quarter
Yuliya Kostyuk
Geir Lanesskog
Lorraine Schleter
2006 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Eldar Zakirov
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Kim Feigenbaum
Katherine Hallberg
Daniel Harris
Laura Jennings
Miguel Rojas
James T. Schmidt
Tamara Streeter
Nathan Taylor
Alex Y. Torres
Melanie Tregonning
Eldar Zakirov
2005 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Erik Valdez y Alanis
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Erik Valdez y Alanis
Youri Bobrikov
Michael Brenner
Cornelius Cockroft
Perrin Hendrick
Ali Hilton
Olga Madiar
Alex Paramonov
Steven V. Popovich
Alex Quintero
Michael Wohlwend
2004 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Laura Diehl
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Yancy Betterly
Laura Diehl
Robert Drozd
Shawn Gaddy
Luis G. Morales
Douglas Pakidko
Fabrizio Pacitti
Brian Carl Petersen
Brian C. Reed
Matt Taggart
Beth Anne Zaiken
2003 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Mike Lawrence
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Jared Barber
Adrian Barbu
Staci Goddard
Vance Kelly
Asuka Komai
Mike Lawrence
Lulkien
Britt Spencer
Nina Ollikainen
Youa Vang
Daniel Willis
2002 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Irena Yankova Dimitrova
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Anthony Arutunian
Irena Yankova Dimitrova
Darlene Gait
Hristo Dimitrov Ginev
Brian Hailes
John Kolbek
David C. Mullins
Jason Pastrana
Fritz Peters
Rey Rosario
C.M. Wolf
2001 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Andy B. Clarkson
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Carlo Arellano
Emilia Avdeyeva
Ane M. Galego
Amanda Anderson Gannon
Andy B. Clarkson
Barry Cote
Dwayne Harris
Andy Justiniano
Ed Thompson
Lee White
Yanko Yankov
2000 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Frank Wu and Yana Yavdoshchook
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Troy Connors
Jayson B. Doolittle
Steelee Faltis
James T. Johnson
Samantha Miceli
Justin Phillips
Katalin Sain
Deth P. Sun
Frank Wu
Yana Yavdoshchook
1999 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Yuri Chari
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Paul Butler
Yuri Chari
James Matt Frantz
Robert G. Kmiec
Lukasz Laskowski
Julia Armstrong Murphy
Igor Pogodin
Ludmila Ryabets
Scott Schomburg
Lee Seed
Tomislav Tomic
Victory
1998 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Paul Marquis
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Dionisios Fragias
Rob Hassan
Christopher Jouan
István Kuklis
John Lock
Paul Marquis
Sherman McClain
John Philo
Eric L. Winter
1997 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Eric Williams
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Igor Baranko
Viktoria Dunayeva
Nathan Hale
Patrick Haslow
Jack Hines
Mia Hopper
David T. Hubbard
Karen Pollitt
Arthur Roberg
Ulia Semenko
Steve Turner
Eric Williams
1996 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Richard Moore
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Lionel Baker II
Oleg Dergatchov
Brett Hess
Ivan Gregov
Kent Martin
Gary McCluskey
Richard Moore
Anatoly Pristypa
Kenneth Scott
Patrick Stacy
Heidi Taillefer
1995 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Dale Ziemianski
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Mike DeWeese
Dan Duncan
Ted Guerin
Dave Hartman
Stefan Kasabov
Crystal H. Marvig
Steve Munsinger
Csaba Olajos
Victor Preyer
John Stevens
Scott Werner
Dale Ziemianski
Andrew Kokorin
1994 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Jana Komarek
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Mike Aspengren
Steve Centeno
Stephen J. Crowley
George M. Harris
David C. House
Andrey Vasilievich Kazmin
Jana Komarek
Valeriy Aleksandrovich Mavlo
Frank Savino
Mano Sotelo
Jeffrey M. Swan
1993 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Denis Martynec
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Sebastijan Camagajevac
Anthony Carpenter
Gary Davis
Brian Lee Durfee
Jessie J. Flores
Yuri Galitsin
Sergei Khristosenko
Denis Martynec
Jody C. McMurrian
Lubov Nicolaeva
Mike Roberts
William Sala
1992 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Evan T. Thomas
First Quarter:
John Caponigro
Ira Crowe
Bob Hobbs
Second Quarter
Allen Koszowski
Evan T. Thomas
Jane Walker
Third Quarter
Darren Albertson
Matthew Stork
Shaun Tan
Fourth Quarter
Omar Rayyan
Yevgeny Rzhanov
Thomas Whittaker
1991 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Sergey Poyarkov
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Rob Alexander
Christopher C. Beau
Thomas Denmark
Charles Doughtery
Harold J. Fox
Peter H. Francis
Michael Grossman
Sergey Poyarkov
James S. Reece
Rob Sanford
Ferenc Temil Temesvari
Lawrence Allen Williams
1990 ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
L. Ron Hubbard Golden Brush Award Winner: Derek Hegsted
ILLUSTRATOR WINNERS
Beryl Bush
Kevin Dzuban
Kelly Faltermayer
Jeff Fennel
Derek Hegsted
Allison Hershey
Kevin Hopkins
Daniel S. Oman
Peggy Ranson
Timothy Standish
Ruth Thompson
Timothy Winkler